Health Courses

Develop your knowledge in Human Anatomy and Physiology.

This course provides you with the knowledge basis to a career in Human Health and Wellbeing. You will understand what is a human body, how it works and which factors determine health.

This course is designed for people working or looking to work in the health care industry, or for people who want to have the basic knowledge of human anatomy and physiology.

This course is the FOUNDATION for understanding the human body; and the first step toward further studies or a career in health services or fitness industries. It provides credit toward qualifications in many things, including naturopathy, fitness, health etc.

Understand how the systems are regulated in both resting and active states and learn how different conditions can affect your cardiorespiratory performance. An ideal course for anyone with an introductory knowledge of human biology who is keen to expand their understand of these vital body systems.

Study this 100 self paced course at home.

This is an important foundation course for all people interested in human health studies.

The cell is the basic unit of life. Its knowledge is most essential to understand how life works for higher animals and plants.

Cell biology is an introductory course designed for everyone wanting to learn more about biology. This is a foundation course for those wishing to have a career in health sciences, biology and biochemistry. Upon completion of this course students should have a sound understanding of cell structure and processes.

"The word cell is derived from the Latin “cella” which means “small room”. Cells are the units from which all living organisms are built. Some organisms (e.g. bacteria) have only one cell in the entire organism. Others are multicellular. A human body can contain an estimated 100,000 billion cells.

Each cell is a self-contained and partially self-sufficient compartment designed to carry out a limited series of functions. While the structure and function of cells is extremely variable, their basic structure is similar. All cells are bound by an outer membrane and contain cytoplasm and DNA."

This course covers pre-pregnancy stage to adolescent nutrition in great detail.

Do you work with children in a child-care or health-care setting, or are planning to in the future?

Are you interested in human nutrition, whilst developing specialist knowledge in children's nutrition?

Are you a first time mum not quite sure of the do's and don'ts when it comes to your child's dietary requirements?

This course provides the essential knowledge!

It contains unique information, researched by highly qualified health scientists and an ideal course for people working with or wanting to work with children, people in the healthcare industry or for mothers wanting to enhance their knowledge for their own child’s nutrition.

Study at Home Aged (Elderly) care and counselling – for anyone who cares for older people professionally or personally.

The demand for counselling within care of the elderly is increasing because people are living longer.There are many ways that the elderly person can learn to cope with health impairments in order to maintain the quality of their life. Counselling can play a role in helping the elderly service user find solutions to problems and ways to avoid them. It may just be that changes need to be made to the care environment, or friends or family need to play a more active role in the life of the elderly person, or perhaps some different skills, behaviours, routines, or habits are needed. There are often several ways to solve everyday problems.

Explore the complex range of emotional issues that confront the elderly and learn to care and counsel the elderly.

From dealing with the emotions of grief and the loss of a partner for the elderly to relationships with children and grandchildren... and much more. This course was written by tutors highly qualified and experienced in the field of Psychology and will help you to care for the

This is a course for anyone working in elderly care services; aged care and counselling, or simply seeking to improve their knowledge and skills to better understand the care for the elderly and help them.

The course will improve you knowledge and understanding of palliative issues, dementia and nutrition

What is a Healthy Diet?

Are you keen to develop your career in nutrition? Perhaps you work with children, young people or the elderly in a health care environment, and need to develop more knowledge of dietary plans and special nutritional needs? This course provides an understanding of the sources, actions, and interactions of nutrients from the food that we eat. Looking at the balance of the nutrients in foods and what makes up a balanced diet.

It is a useful course for anyone who is interested in nutrition and health either for themselves or to help and advise others. It is more then a collection of information; this is a carefully developed program tutored by university trained and experienced nutritional scientists; it provides sequenced learning experiences.

Courses are continually reviewed and revisions are happening every month of the year ·Courses are "experiential" based learning (This is different to many other schools)

Learn to Select and Prepare Food for a healthier diet.

This course covers the elements of vitamins and minerals and teaches you how to develop a well balanced diet. It can be taken alone or to build on the information learned in Nutrition I.

What is Good Food?

This course is your first step toward a serious understanding of human nutrition.

• It provides complimentary skills for people involved with food and health across a wide range of vocations (Health or fitness professionals through to chef's and health food shop sales staff).
• It provides a starting point for persons wanting to work more specifically in the field of nutrition (Note: To work as a nutritionist or prescribe food supplements in most developed countries will require you to do far more study than the 100 hrs in this course)
• It provides the concerned individual with the knowledge needed to better manage their own diet, and that of those around them.

This course completes the knowledge build up in Nutrition I and II, and also can stand alone as a nutrition programs course.

Do you need to communicate with Doctors and patients?

A special course designed for people working or wishing to work in medical environments, with no medical training, to develop skills to communicate clearly and effectively using medical terminology.

This course is relevant to anyone working or wishing to work in fields of health, alternative medicine or paramedical areas; such as reception for a doctor or natural therapist.

It shows, with practical examples, how our body is able to move and how to improve flexibility, performance and posture.

The course guides you to a better understanding of the operation of muscles and nerves, in movements and reactions observed in the body.

This course covers: nerves, the nervous system, motor skills, structure & function of skeletal muscle, muscular strength, endurance and flexibility.

This course helps you understand obesity, particularly focusing on the effect of what we eat on weight.

WEIGHT CONTROL ONLINE COURSE Learn to manage weight more effectively. This course is suitable for: ·Fitness leaders, life coches, doctors, nurses,and other health or fitness professionals ·Anyone wanting to understand and better manage their own weight Weight is affected by a number of things: exercise, nutrition, psychology and other things.

This course lays a foundation for understanding weight control; particularly with respect to what a person eats. Study for self improvement (to help understand and reduce their own weight); or by someone working in the fields of health or fitness, in order to improve their understanding and capacity to help clients.

Learn how nutrition relates to sporting performance.

This course details some elements such as energy in the athlete's body, fluids, and diets.

Perfect for the amateur (or professional) sportsman, trainer, coach, or anyone wanting to better manage diet for improved or more appropriate sporting performance.

Student gain an understanding and skills in: ·managing training diets·managing competition diets·weight loss·fluids·energy and more.

Good Diet Helps Healing ...Learn how.

Therapeutic nutrition is the provision of nutrients to maintain and/or restore optimal nutrition and health.

Therapeutic diets may be required as therapy for a disease e.g. coeliac disease or to treat malnutrition arising from low energy and nutrient intakes or due to increased energy and nutrient needs.

 This course will help you identify circumstances where diet may need modification.